FASHIONS AND FEMALES.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 July 1917, Page 5

FASHIONS AND FEMALES.

MR. HORNSBY DENOUNCES WOMEN'S EXTRAVAGANCE. Flourishing a ladies' fashion journal in one hand and thumping the desk in front of him with the other, Mr. J. T. Hornsby, M.P. for Wairarapa, declaimed against ladies' fashions in the House of Representatives on Friday night. "The little lady who sends white feathers to young men," he cried, shaking the fashion hook playfully in the air, "This is the little person who .wiggles down Lambton Quay with £SO worth of finery on her little body." A member: What does wiggle mean? (Laughter). He proceeded to go deeper into the question. There was an agitation for the suppression of ■ indecent posters, said Mr. but if the agitators only looked into these sale advertisements and fashion journals they would find verv objectionable pictures. Years n« 0 a woman would have blushed to mention any clothing beneath the outSide dress—('lßUghtcr)-and what (lid they see illustrated in the present-day fashion publications? , Mr J. Vigor Brown rose to a point of order, but Mr. Speaker said that a lave amount of latitude .was allowed in the° debate on the imprest Supply Bill Mr. Hornsby said that he was dealing with extravagance. Mr. Brown: "My word, you will get it'when you get home." (Laughter).